Statistical wind forecast for Reus airport

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 485-495

  Traveria, Miquel ^a   Escribano, Alejandro ^a   Palomo, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Neural networks; Self organizing maps; Statistical downscaling; Wrapper feature subset selection

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA MINING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; STATISTICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FEATURE SUBSET SELECTION; FORECASTING ACCURACY; NORMAL OPERATIONS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; WEATHER PREDICTION; WEATHER-RELATED ACCIDENTS;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS;

AIRCRAFT; AIRPORT; DOWNSCALING; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 78649714913     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.192     Document Type: Article

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